Washing-machine.



G. J. DE HAY.

WASHING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. H, 1915.

:0 1 9 1 1 e H u u d AU m m a D1 WJWW 5Q KA/LIAM G-EDEON J. DE HAY, OF BROCKTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

WASHING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June ll, 19115.

Application filed January 11, 1915. Serial No. 1,511.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEDEON J. DE HAY, a subject of the Dominion of Canada, and resident of Brockton, in the county of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Washing-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a washing machine composed of a fixed outer cylinder, and a perforated? inner cylinder mounted to rotate in the outer cylinder and separated therefrom by an annular space.

l/Vhen the machine is at rest and the doors or covers closing the usual doorways therein are open to permit the insertion and removal of the work, small articles such as handkerchiefs are liable to drop into the said annular space, and gravitate to the bottom of the outer cylinder, where they are naccessible and out of sight. To prevent th1s dlfiiculty various forms of guards have been used to bridge the annular space at the lower edges of the doorways. The guards heretofore used have been more or less complicated and expensive, inconvenient, and liable to derangement.

My invention has for its ob ect to provide a relatively simple, inexpensive and durable guard, adapted to be applied as an attachment to any ordinary two-"cylinder washing machine, and to be conveniently located in and removed from its operative position.

The invention consists in the improvements which I will now proceed to describe and claim.

Uf the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification: Figure 1 represents a sectional view of a washing machine provided with a guard attachment embodying my invention; Fig. 2 represents a fragmentary section on line 22 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 represents an enlargement of a portion of Fig. 1; Fig. 4.- represents a view similar to a portion of Fig. 3, showing the guard in its inoperative position, and the door of the outer cylinder closed; Fig. 5 represents a side view of the guard plate detached, the central portion being broken away; Fi 6 represents a perspective view of the attachment.

The same reference characters indicate the same or similar parts in all the views.

In the drawings, 12 represents the fixed outer cylinder and 13 the perforated rotary inder by an annular space 14, each cylinder having a doorway and a hinged door or cover therefor, 15 designating the door of the outer cylinder and 16 designating the door of the inner cylinder.

Tn carrying out my invention I provide an attachment which, in the preferred embodiment of the invention here shown, is composed of a plate 17 formed to enter the doorway of the outer cylinder and bridge the space 14, said plate having hinge pintles 1 8, and two hinge plates 19 attached by screws or otherwise to the outer cylinder at opposite ends of the doorway therein, and having sockets 20, into which the pintles 18 project and in which said pintles are adapted to turn. The hinges formed by the pintles 18 and socketed plates 19 permanently connect the guard plate 17 with the outer cylinder, and permit the guard plate to project operatively through the doorway of the outer cylinder across the space 14, and to occupy an inoperative position outside the cylinder when the door 15 is closed, as shown by Fig. 4, so that the pintles 18 may slide as well as turn therein. The sockets 20 are preferably elongated and so formed that when the guard plate is in its operative position, its outer edge is within the doorway of the outer cylinder, and when the guard plate is in its inoperative position it hangs vertically outside the cylinder, the hinge plates 19 being formed and arranged to permit the closing of the door, and to project outwardly from the periphery of the outer cylinder.

The attachment may be applied to any or dinary washing machine by forming'seats for the hinge plates 19 in the portions of the outer cylinder which form the ends of the doorway, and attaching the plates to said seats by screws 22, the plates being additionally attached by screws 23 inserted in ears 24 formed on the lower ends of the hinge plates.

Having described my invention, I claim:

The combination with a two-cylinder washing machine, of a guard plate formed to enter a doorway in the outer cylinder and bridge the space between the outer and inner cylinders, and having hinge pintles at its ends, and fixed hinge plates attached to the outer cylinder at opposite ends of the doorway therein, and having elongated sockets in which said pintles are free to turn and slide, to permit the guard plate to either In testimony whereof I have afiixed my hang downwardly from the doorwey outsignature, in presence of two witnesses.

side the outer cylinder, or to .pro ect inwardly through said doorway, the hinges GEDEON DE -5 formed by s'ald pintles and plates erma- Witnesses:

nently connecting the guard plate with the OSCAR GAUDETTE,

outer cylinder. PAUL DE HAY. 

